# Inge (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/inge/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 717 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 717 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 6, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 6 | 8,839 |
| 1978 | 8 | 7,196 |
| 1979 | 8 | 7,554 |
| 1981 | 10 | 6,500 |
| 1982 | 8 | 7,725 |
| 1983 | 6 | 9,456 |
| 1985 | 9 | 7,164 |
| 1986 | 5 | 11,582 |
| 1987 | 6 | 10,337 |
| 1998 | 5 | 15,024 |
| 2001 | 6 | 14,184 |
| 2007 | 5 | 18,696 |
| 2014 | 6 | 15,343 |
| 2015 | 5 | 17,493 |
| 2021 | 5 | 16,185 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 3 | 4,373 |
| 2005 | 3 | 4,798 |

## People named Inge

- Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist who discovered the Earth's inner core (1888-1993)
- Inge de Bruijn, Dutch swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, former world record-holder
- Inge Morath, Austrian photographer (1923-2002)
- Inge Sørensen, Danish swimmer
- Inge Dekker, Dutch swimmer
- Inge Meysel, German actress (1910–2004)
- Inge Keller, German actress (1923-2017)
- Inge Janssen, Dutch rower
- Inge Scholl, German author and activist (1917–1998)
- Inge Heybroek, field hockey player (1915–1956)
- Inge Deutschkron, German-Israeli author and journalist (1922-2022)
- Inge Wersin-Lantschner, Austrian alpine skier (1905-1997)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.